WP MoneyClick 1.2.0 Released

New Features

Amazon / eBay affiliation tags per user basis

Now the Amazon and eBay providers allows to set user affiliation tag on a per user basis. This is very useful where in a multi-author blog you want to grant commissions on the various users who collaborates with you.

In the user profile edit screen you have 2 new fields

It these values are not set, the system will use the general affiliate ID set in the WPMoneyClick provider settings.

Content Item Before/After Custom Code

Every content item now has 2 new attributes ‘code before’ and ‘code after’. The 2 new attributes can contain any HTML, CSS, JS and also WP shortcodes.

They will be rendered before / after the normal content item output.

New templates for Inline Related Post

There are 2 new builtin templates that can be used to implement WP inline related article:

Inline related post

Inline related post (with post image thumbnail)

Inline related post are great to drastically increase pageviews and reduce bounce rate: keep you users in your web site!

WP MoneyClick 2.0 Released

New Features

WP MoneyClick becomes more affordable

From this release (2.0), WP MoneyClick will be released in the 2 editions: Standard and Professional.

The standard edition contains all the needed tools to start monetizing your web site with a low-cost solution. Whenever you want you can upgrade to the professional version just paying the difference.

Check out the compare page to see the differences between the standard and professional versions.

New analytics & tracking system

WP MoneyClick is able to track automatically each click to your contents and smartlinks. Statistics are updated in realtime in the Click Stream view.

For each click a lot of user information are tracked:

IP address

Clicked smartlink / content (with related provider),

Visitor type (unique / non-unique)

User Language

Device type (desktop, smartphone, tablet)

Platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, …)

Browser (Chrome, IE, FireFox, Opera, Safari, …)

Client type (human or BOT/crawler)

HTTP referrer

…much more!

For each single content (or smartlink) it is possible to have a detailed trend chart:

Apple iTunes provider is on board !

This is really a great news: we added Apple iTunes affiliation provider. You can get commissions taking advantage from the huge Apple catalog: music (tracks & albums), books, movies and apps!

Amazon now supports ‘Add to Cart’ target page

When creating an Amazon content now you can decide where the user will be redirected when clicking the offer:

Product page: this is the default. The affiliation cookie duration is 24 hrs.

Add to cart page: this is a new option. The affiliation cookie duration is 30 days: multiply the possibilities to get commissions!

Smartlinks now can have pretty URL

For each single smartlink, now is possible to define a kind of “permalink” that can be used as an alias for that smartlink.

This is great both for SEO purposes as well as for readibility (for example when the smartlink is posted in a social network).

Contents can be targeted using time range restrictions

Defining a content is now possible to set a target restriction based on time hours. For example you may want that a particular offer is visible only between 10:00-13:00, while another one is visbile after 16:00, and so on.

Shortcode custom data attributes

Now when using the shortcode it is possible to use an arbitrary list of data attributes (pair of name=”value”) that can then be used in the templates for custom renderings. All data attribute names must start with ‘data-‘.
For example you can have a shortcode like

and use these data attributes in a custom template to get a result like this:

Other enhancements

A new ‘note’ field is added to all MoneyClick entities: contents, smartlinks, templates, display and publishing groups/rules. This field is ignored by the system but can be very useful to take your notes associated with a particular context.

WP MoneyClick 1.3.0 Released

New Features

Twenga affiliation provider is on board!

Now our users can use Twenga affiliation products. Twenga is available in a lot of countries (all Europe and Brasil and USA). You can see Twenga affiliation statistics directly inside WPMoneyClick (new Analytics menu item).

Visual Product Selector

For all affiliation providers (Amazon, eBay, Kelkoo, Twenga and TrovaPrezzi) when you edit a content item you will find the new product selector.

It greatly simplify the job to find affiliation products. You can use keyword for search, and narrow the results using categories. Also item sort can be specified

eBay provider supports search by category

Now also using eBay affiliation provider is possibile to narrow search results using categories.

Data Cache can be configured down to few minutes

Data caching now can be also configured to 5, 10, 15 and 30 minutes.

Content Editor Improved !

The content item editor has been improved with new features:

When selecting a data provider (for example Amazon), the template list will be automatically filtered to show only relevant templates

When selecting a template, if it supports data attributes, it will be possibile to select them from a popup list

SmartLink Redirection by Multiple URLs

When you define a redirection SmartLink, now is possibile to specify a list of URLs and a selection / redirection logic that will be used to redirect users to the final URL.

The logic used to redirect the users can be random, sequential or sequence loop.

Performance Optimization

The goal of WP MoneyClick is to have almost 0 (zero !) impact on your web site performances (when used with a WP cache plugin like W3 Total Cache). Now a new settings is available to enable / disable client language detection (that requires an extra HTTP request for each user request).

Especially in shared web site this will avoid any server overload. Unless you are using user language for content targeting or smartlink redirection, you can safely keep this option disabled (the default is, in fact, disabled).

An important element in all web sites is user engaging. For sure, we want that our users don’t left too soon our web site.

WPMoneyClick has a content provider called ‘WordPress’ that is designed to handle WordPress posts and pages as ‘data’, that can be used / manipulated using the plugin capabilities.

In this tutorial we will create 2 types of ‘related articles’:

‘Classic’ related articles, displayed at the end of a post or using an animated flyout/popup

‘Inline’ related article, where we ‘merge’ inside existing articles a box where we suggest to read (also) something else in our web site

In both cases our goals are:

Increase number of viewed pages in your site

Decrease the bounce rate (% of people that left your site after visiting one page/post)

Keep readers attention

Increase user engagement

Creating a content item with the WordPress provider

The first step we must do is to create a content item using the ‘WordPress’ provider (here a video tutorial on how to create a content item).

Looking at the picture above you see some key attributes for this content item:

Post selection: you can decide how the provider will select posts that are shown as ‘related articles’. You can use current post categories, current post tags or a custom taxonomy. Here we use ‘current post categories’.

Sort: you can sort the selected posts by publish/modified date, author, random, etc.

Template: this is key as the template is linked to the type of provider we are using. In this case we are using the ‘WPMC WordPress Related Article’ template. Note that each template can support some (optional) template attributes. In this case this template supports the template attribute ‘title’.

Display Mode: how this related-article is going to be visualized to our users: for this example we use ‘WPMC Popup Right’

Count: the number of related articles to be displayed. In this example we put 3.

Now we want that in all our posts (not in site pages or in the home page) these related artcles, magically, appears. It’s time to use automatic publishing.

Publishing automatically the related articles to all site posts

WPMoneyClick has a very powerful and flexible system to publish your contents in all your web sites, using publishing groups and publishing rules (see this video tutorial to learn how to create publishing rule/group).

In this case what we need to setup is:

A publishing rule that links the content item we just created.Note that ‘Inject position’ is ignored as the display mode is ‘popup bottom right’ (this attribute make sense only when display mode is ‘inline’).

A publishing group that contains the above publishing rule:

That’s it. Nothing more to do. Now every time your users will see a post, a flyout popup will ‘enter’ in the screen with a smooth animation to show to your users 3 related articles they can read…

What about inline related article?

A variant of the related articles is to ‘inject’ a single related-artitle in the middle of post text. This is an effective way to have your users spending more time in your web site.

Taking as example what we did in this tutorial, you need to:

Change the content item display mode from ‘popup bottom right’ to ‘inline’. Change also the ‘count’ attribute to 1 (3 are too much for inline injection!)

Change the publish rule injection position to ‘Middle of the post’ (or whatever you like).

This is the final result (Note: for this specific example we changed also the used template to render the inline article as a nice simple gray box).

In a lot of cases, your web site already contains hundreds (or may be thousands) of articles.

So what about publishing affiliation offers in all your articles, without going to change, one by one, all the existing posts?

Using WPMoneyClick this is done with just few mouse clicks! So let’s see which are the steps and the logic behind.

Publishing Groups and Publishing Rules

As you already know, the building block of WPMoneyClick are the content items (see this tutorial to see how simple is creating a content item).

The way you publish manually a content item is using its shortcode. When you want to publish a content on all your site (all the pages, all the posts, etc.) you need to use the automatic publishing capabilities of WPMoneyClick.

Few concepts to keep in mind:

The root control level for automatic publishing are publishing groups. Without (enabled) publishing groups, no content will be automatically published

A publishing group can contain 1 or more publishing rules. You can decide, for each group, if all the contained rules should be applied or just the first matching one

A publishing rule is where you link the content you want to publish and where you decide where the content should be published.

If you link more that 1 content item to the same rule, when the rule is applied the system will select 1 content item randomly.

Automatic publishing is a very powerful (and flexible) feature: you can decide, for example, to publishing certain offers to all posts in the ‘Apple’ category (may be using a popup), while displaying some other offers for post in the ‘Android’ category, at the end of each article, and so on. The possibilities are endless.

View the following video tutorial to see how simple is publishing your affiliation offers without chaning any article in your web site.

NOTE 1: remember to check that in general settings the ‘Automatic Publishing’ features is enabled.

NOTE 2: the system provides a Publishing Simulator, where you can check, for a specific URL of your web site, which publishing groups/rules will be applied (so which content will be published)

How to create an affiliation product offer content?

Today we will learn how to create a content item, and how to publish it in yout post and/or pages. In particular we will create an affiliation product offer using Amazon as content provider, and you will see that is something that takes 2 minutes (may be less !).

So let’s start. Go to the WP MoneyClick menu and select ‘Contents’:

This will display a list of current created content items:

Click the ‘Add New’ button to create a new content and select the content provider type you want (in our example we will use Amazon):

As you can see just after the content creation you can assign a title (‘iPhone 6 64GB‘) that will help you in recognizing the content.

The system displays the shortcode and the smartlink for this content.For this tutorial what we will need is the shortcode.

What is a shortcode?

A shortcode is a WordPress special ‘tag’ that is rendered by WordPress with dynamic content. The general syntax is

[shortcodename param1=’value1′ param2=’value2′ … ]

In WP MoneyClick the shortcode to visualize a content is:

[ wpmoneyclick id=’483′ ]

where 483 is the content ID (assigned automatically by the system).

So, now, coming back to our tutorial, we are creating a content for the Amazon provider. You just need to fill the fields to ask the system searching amazon in its (huge !) product catalog. You see that you can search by product ID (that uniquely identify an Amazon product, or by Category/Search keyword). We are using the last one:

IMPORTANT: for a correct search is important to choose the right product category.

Now is time to select which templateyou want to use to render the content. The template defines how the content will look like when displayed in the user browser. You can use a ‘built-in’ templates that are coming with the plugin or, more typically, you create your own template (may be using a built-in template as starting point). For the moment let’s use the template ‘WPMC Affiliation Product Card’:

You see that after the template you have to choose the ‘Display Mode‘. If the template is defining how the content will look like, the display mode is defining how the content will ‘enter’ in the page.

Leaving it blank (or choosing ‘WPMC Inline’) will just display the content in the normal page flow. Other possibile values are fixed top/bottom bars, popups, etc. But for the moment just keep it blank.

Now you can ‘publish’ the content item, that in the WordPress terminology means just to save it. After the save you can use the ‘Preview’ button to see the result: If your preview looks like the picture above, it means that everything is working fine!

Now you are ready to use this content wherever you need: in a blog post, in a page, in a dashboard widget: just copy and paste the shortcode [ wpmoneyclick id=’483′ ] where you need it.

What about publishing this content in all my site posts?

If you have a lot of existing posts, may be you want to publish product offers also in existing posts, without doing it manually one by one. In this case WP MoneyClick can help you a lot.

Using the automatic publishing feature you can do it with just few mouse clicks. A detailed tutorial is coming soon !

Did you configure the Amazon provider?

Remember that before creating any content using the Amazon provider, you must configure it in the settings menu: